[alsa-devel] Alsamixer isn't working properly with HDA VIA VT82xx with Realtek ALC888 Codec

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:07:57 +0200,
Stephan Jänecke wrote:
> 
> Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2009 10:44:50 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
> > At Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:10:54 +0100,
> > This looks weird.  Could you try the latest alsa-driver snapshot
> > and see whether you get a better (complete) /proc/asound/card0/codec#*
> > outputs?
> >   
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-sna
> >pshot.tar.gz
> >
> > If you still get a strange output, try to load the module with
> > probe_only=1 option and get the codec proc output.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
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> 
> Had some free time and replaced Fedora Cambridge by Ubuntu Jaunty.
> The codec shows up now:
> stephan at intel32ub904:~$ head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec* 
> Codec: Realtek ALC888
> 
> But I'm still unable to run alsamixer:
> stephan at intel32ub904:~$ alsamixer -c0
> 
> alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument

Make sure you don't use pulse plugin.  That is, run
	% alsamixer -Dhw:0

> I already tried today's alsa-driver-snapshot, but my problems weren't solved 
> just by replacing the drivers. I'll need some help configuring them when it 
> points out that they are the cause of my troubles.
> Have a look at http://www.alsa-
> project.org/db/?f=dc5b8f157a91a9f9d3edbd948a0c581ab5d60bd1 or at alsa-info-
> ubuntu in the attachment.
> Any help is welcome. :)

The alsa-info you attached isn't for the latest alsa-driver snapshot.
Please post the latest one.

Also, check the kernel messages.


Takashi